Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship

by bonrowe on January 2, 2011

Dietrich bonhoeffer, Discipleship

Like a metaphorical smack to the face, Bonhoeffer begins his work Discipleship with a profound and poignant contrast between cheap and costly grace. This blatant refusal and repulsion of cheap grace, and acceptance and requirement of costly grace by the Christian disciple sets the tone for the remainder of this stunning work. After my second [...]

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Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamozov’ review

December 3, 2010
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This review must be broken into a few different sections. The first will be my general feel of the whole book and that within; and that is where I believe my first problem lies. My translation is from Everyman’s Library by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, and I must say that I did not enjoy [...]

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The Death of Reason: What Happens When The Voters Stop Thinking

November 4, 2010
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It’s official, the end is nigh, buy the casket and get the embalming fluid running, reason is dead. Oh how displeased Plato would be to discover that instead of people breaking out of “The Cave” and helping others to do so, we’re setting up recliners with mini beer fridges attached and strapping ourselves in for [...]

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What’s the most you ever lost in a coin toss?

October 29, 2010
No Country for Old Men, Havier Bardem

What does a man who owns a gas station in the middle-of-nowhere Texas stand to lose with the flip of a coin? Is Death’s call inevitable or does chance determine whether he lives? The line, “You’ve been putting it up your whole life, you just didn’t know it,” has profound implications when we consider what [...]

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The Brothers Karamozov excerpt

October 15, 2010

Father Zossima’s homily – Dostoyevsky In the article “The Emptying of the Self,” a portion of this homily was quited to relate how Dostoyevksy saw similar problems in his society that are similar to today.  By reading this homily in its entirety, the humanism of Dostoyevsky is evident in his heart for wanting to see [...]

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Death of the Printed Book?

September 30, 2010

Will print books be obsolete within a short time?  Will book stores only be used book stores in the near future?  Every avid reader I speak to has tried an ebook reader of some sort, kindle, kudos, the vaunted ipad, and all say the same thing: “I like it but this electronic gidgamagag will never [...]

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The Emptying of the Self

September 23, 2010

It is a great irony that in an age where humanity has reached new heights of self-gratification and feelings of personal entitlement, we have also developed the nasty practice of emptying ourselves of all responsibility. We are quick to shout in protest but slow to think about what is being said. We are proud of [...]

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Everyone is a Philosopher on some level

September 19, 2010

When people think of philosophy they usually think of abstract concepts that mean little to what happens everyday. However, this high level philosophy is only one dimension of the discipline. Really there are three levels of philosophical discussion and almost everyone participates on at least one level everyday. Here are the three levels: Level 1. [...]

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The Sickness of Cynicism

September 12, 2010

In Conan O’brien’s final send off on his short-lived time as host of the Tonight Show, he had an important message for his viewers—Don’t Be Cynical.  Now if there is anyone who has just cause to be cynical one would think it would be Conan.  His transition to the Tonight Show was talked about for [...]

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Morally Superior?

September 12, 2010

The USA is a great country. It is the land of opportunity, a land where people’s rights are, for the most part, upheld as sacred. However, when America goes out to play with the rest of the world, when we look into the dirty corners of American foreign policy, the values Americans hold in high esteem at home, are not always realized abroad…

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